Get an annotated online bibliography on small-scale fisheries and fishing communities. Resources are classified under eight themes: Right to Resources, Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture, Disasters and Climate Change, Decent Work, Fisheries Trade, Aquaculture, Biodiversity and SSF Guidelines
Women engage in a wide range of activities in fisheries, including paid and unpaid work and liaison with institutions. In several countries, women dominate inland fishing and aquaculture. Their play multiple roles – in seafood processing plants, as caregivers in the family, as the builders of social networks and community.
Gender issues focus not on women only but on their relationship with men, on their roles, rights and responsibilities. They acknowledge that these vary within and between cultures as well as by class, race, ethnicity, age and marital status.
The 2014 SSF Guidelines are based on the principle of gender equality and equity. They integrate gender issues into all small-scale fisheries development strategies.
Natural Calamities — Tsunami (giant tidal wave) struck Tamil Nadu coasts on 26-12-2004 — Damages caused to fishing implements — Comprehensive Relief Package for repair and replacement of damaged /...
This paper focuses on the housing problem, which is not a question of four walls and a roof alone. It argues that housing is a social problem, which has many...
This is the report of the ” Workshop on Fishing Communities and Their Livelihoods in the Tsunami Aftermath” held in Phuket Royal City Hotel, Phuket, 14-15th February 2005
The tsunami of 26 December 2004 has killed an estimated 300,000 people and devastated the livelihoods of millions of coastal people, many of them poor fishers, fish farmers and their...
Mobile populations such as sea nomads and their multi-local sense of belongingness have always presented as a challenge to the normative concepts of citizenship and rights couched in the hegemonic...